NOT EVERYONE IS GOING TO LIKE YOU.

Even if you’re the kind of person who always returns your grocery cart. Or makes a batch of homemade soup for a sick friend. Or always calls your aging grandmother back.

Because you’re still going to be too much for some people. Or not enough for others. It’s just the way it is.You’ll be too loud. Too emotional. Too sensitive. Too intense. Too extroverted. Too introverted. Too needy. Too this or that.

You can work your butt off to be well-liked. And it still won’t be enough. But just remember, you are enough. Just the way you are. Let’s stop trying so hard to be well-liked by everyone. And start living!

Live boldly walking along the sides of those who already embrace you—the YOU you were born to be. There are people in your life right now who care about who you are on the inside and what you represent on the outside. They don’t need you to be perfect.

They don’t care if you wear the same black yoga pants every day with the same cardigan sweater and top knot. They just want you, all of you, just the way you are today.

So, it’s true. Not everyone’s going to like you even when you try your hardest to do all of the things.

Just stop trying so hard.

Open your arms to those closest to you.

And be you.

Because you are enough.

Not too much or too little.

Enough.

Written by: Angela Anagnost-Repke